Education News Updates

New Delhi: Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar today rubbished the reports of recommendation making Hindi language compulsory until Class 8 in all the schools across the country. Javadekar informed that there’s no provision of making any language compulsory in National Education Policy draft while clarifying that the news in the media is wrong. The HRD […]

New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has invited online applications from all eligible Higher Educational Institutions (HEls) for offering Courses/Programmes in Online mode as per UGC (Online Courses or Programmes) Regulations, 2018. As per sources, the proposals have been invited from HEIs for recognition of courses/programmes to be offered in online mode and this […]

New Delhi: In a major development, Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar today announced the approval an increase of 5000 seats in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) for the Academic Year 2019-20.  At present the number of seats in JNVs, residential schools for talented rural children, are 46600. The addition of 5000 seats will mean […]

New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has released the list of 24 fake Universities on its website www.ugc.ac.in. In addition, the Commission also issued public notice against the unrecognized status of Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM), New Delhi and illegal status of Bio-Chemic Education Grant Commission, Nadia, West Bengal. Bhartiya Shiksha Parishad, […]

Odisha government on Friday announced the cancellation of the Plus II examinations in the State in view of the uncertain situation created by the second wave of Covid pandemic.

Agartala: In a major development, the Tripura Cabinet has given its nod to a proposal to introduce the NCERT curriculum in all state government and aided schools from the next academic session, beginning April 2019. As per reports, the Department of Education has initiated the process to introduce the NCERT curriculum to replace the existing […]

This year, the Central Board Of Secondary Education (CBSE) decided to conduct the examination of skill subjects in latter half of February 2019, while efforts were made to declare the Date Sheet at the earliest and keeping in mind that the students will get sufficient time between the examination of important subjects the Date Sheet […]

The Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) is implementing important scholarship schemes for school, college and university students including those pursuing medical and engineering courses. The important scholarship schemes are as follows: (i) National Means-Cum Merit Scholarship Scheme: Under the scheme, scholarship is awarded to the eligible meritorious students, having parental income up to Rs.1.5 […]

In circulars issued to all head of the Institutions affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), the Board had requested to follow certain steps during checking and updating teachers date for appointment for examination and evaluation-related activities. While the last date was November 30, the Board has said that the date has been […]

The Supreme Court had directed Delhi University and the Cental Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to ensure that the result of CBSE including results of re-evaluation ‘are taken into account from the commencing academic year, whilst determining the cut-off date for admission of colleges of the University of Delhi’. Accordingly, the CBSE decided the List […]

New Delhi: In a major announcement, the Supreme Court has allowed undergraduate medical students of age 25 or above to appear for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). The SC bench, however, said that their admission will be subjected to the final outcome of the case on validity of CBSE’s decision to fix the upper […]

New Delhi: Arvind Saxena has been sworn in as the Chairman of Union Public Service Commission (UPSC). The Oath of Office and Secrecy was administered by Prof. (Dr.) Pradeep Kumar Joshi, senior most Member of the Commission, at a ceremony here today. Saxena joined the Commission as Member on May 8, 2015 and was later […]

New Delhi: In a major announcement, the Supreme Court has allowed undergraduate medical students of age 25 or above to appear for National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). The SC bench, however, said that their admission will be subjected to the final outcome of the case on validity of CBSE’s decision to fix the upper […]

As per a directive of the Supreme Court, the Union of India (MHRD) was directed to constitute a three members Committee comprising of eminent persons who have held high positions in the field of education, investigation, administration or law at national level to examine the issues indicated in the orders and also to suggest a […]

The Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE) New Delhi will be conducting the eleventh edition of Central Teacher Eligibility Test (CTET) on December 9, 2018 (Sunday) at 2296 centres throughout the country in 92 cities. The schedule of the CTET December 2018 is as per the given time schedule: The Paper I test will commence […]